My bank here in US uses asp for front-end but works flawlessly to what ever browser even with konqueror and mozilla. My bet is there are a big number of clients that uses mac and definitely this are the kind of clients that any bank will not want to piss off :)
thad On 10/9/06, Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric, I share your sentiments. BPI, fortunately, provides an alternate site for us non-IE users. Citibank's online services supports non-IE users as well. PNB, OTOH, sucks big time! Anyway, I blame it on the bank's IT people before STUPID! Yes, I dare say so because they do not know how to use open web standards - that alone makes them stupid! Now, if only the banks will know how stupid their IT people are - I am sure that they will do something about it. I propose a WALL OF SHAME for these sites! We can always publicly shame them for not supporting open standards. :) Right now, this is the direction I am going within UP - shaming those who force its users to use Microsoft Office to open university documents. :D Cheers! On Oct 10, 2006, at 7:10 AM, eric pareja wrote: > This is a rather late response to this thread and slightly askew. > Instead of the back-end, which consumers won't really care that much > about, what I am more concerned about regarding bank websites, > particularly their online banking portals, is that most of them seem > to -require- you to use a particulare web-browser on a particular OS. > As a consumer, I do not find it funny that I am forced to use that > specific combination of software to be able to access their online > services. Of course, the numbers of end-users who don't use that > specific combination of software is not the majority, but it is by no > means insignificant. I am lucky that there is a workaround for some of > these, but I still have to go through hoops to be able to manage my > bank account online using Linux. It would have been so much easier for > consumers (this includes us, Linux/BSD/MacOS users) really if they had > just used open standards to build their portals. > > I suppose the same can be said about government portals that should be > accessible to all. > > Most of us on this list already know about the benefits of using open > standards as well as free and open source software. Do IT > professionals in banking and government have a clue in this direction? > What can we do about this, if they do not? > > On 2/8/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it is also said that BPI is ruing their Linux "adventure." It's >> one of those >> banks I mentioned earlier. >> > > -- > ___ > \e/ > .v. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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